The show began with Dr. Weiss hypnotizing certain members of the audience who had volunteered. When questioned, a black woman in the audience said "It weirded me out because I was white and I was a nun. I am so unlike a nun now." Another person in the audience reported that this first time she went deep into regression "I thought I was in a swamp. I looked down and I had men's legs. I was actually murdered. I was killed with a knife. Later I saw my Dad and sister who had passed over."
Another female in the audience stated in her regression she was a Native American and she had children. She was very emotional because in this life she would love to have children but doesn't. The first life she saw she died and her children lived. "I have had many women go through this and then get pregnant" Dr Weiss stated. He continued, "We change race and religions in different lives. We are all connected. It's not about color or race. We have all been black, white, red, etc. We have been everything."
In the next part of the show Dr. Weiss told how he was not a believer in past lives until one of his clients, an adult child of an alcoholic named Catherine, after more than one year of conventional treatment, suddenly "went back to the root of her problem," which was a past life. Dr Weiss did what every therapist does. He took notes even though he was not open to past lives. "With each new session came new discoveries and more and more past lives. I was shocked. I thought it was imagination or fantasy but she was staring to heal. She was a Catholic woman from New England and didn't believe in past lives either."
Dr. Weiss was concerned because as he became more and more interested in Past-Life Regression Therapy, if this information became known, his license could have been suspended and he could have lost everything as Head of Psychiatry of the hospital where he worked. "But it was so real and so detailed" that he continued this work and researched this type of therapy. During one session Catherine gave him personal information about his father and a thirteen-week old son who had both died. "No one could have told her this information. You know how you get a feeling in your bones that this is just real? Past lives are here to teach us about life and death and what happens after that," he said.
Dr. Oz, a frequent guest on Oprah's show, also received a past-life regression. He stated: "It's happened to all of us, getting this direct line. When you're driving alone and missing an exit on the highway because you are in auto pilot is one good example. Only by observing what's really happening can we begin to get our arms around a new concept. That's what fascinated me so much about this whole process."
Dr. Oz continued explaining, "As I entered into a deeper state of awareness, I felt it might be tedious. But I ended up with a memory. A dream I had before entering Kindergarten. In this dream, my father is taking me by the hand to these men from the Ottoman Empire. They are professors in school. They are writing down my lessons and what I am to learn. They are not joking around. It seems to me that they were planning my life. Then I ended up in this space that many of my patients describe as being in a space where they can see lights. A stream of people was going past me. They didn't have faces. They were energy. It was sixty minutes long and it felt like just a few minutes that I had been under."
Dr. Oz stated that the collective unconscious of Carl Jung is where past lives are stored. "In this society, we have gotten addicted that the answer will be there. We are uncomfortable with the mystery of certain experiences. Sometimes we have to take the leap and deal with the unknown."
A former guest named Leon, a funeral director, was asked to return to the show to be regressed. He telepathically received the message "They want me to tell people they are OK." "That's good. Who are they?" Dr. Weiss asked. "The dead people." "OK that's good and you can tell them that. You have your own experience now." When Oprah asked who was the message coming from Leon explained "It's just a real strong feeling. I have always felt this energy. It's more of a spirit thing than a voice."
Leon continued in his regression to have memories of watching a woman who is his sister in this life be a rape victim whom he could not help. He explained that he has always had problems in his relationship with his sister now, which he feels have been released by this memory. He also has had flying dreams since he was young and he experienced a past life where his airplane was shot down because of his behavior. As his own plane crashes, Dr. Weiss stated: "When I touch your forehead you will leave that experience. Just float above it. You are relieved."
Dr. Weiss ended the show by explaining "All of your minds are connected. I see God everywhere in this. We are like ice cubes, which are made from water. The water melts and now there's no individuality anymore. People are like the ice cubes. We think we are separate from everybody else but we are not. We melt into a spiritual sea. Love is the organizing spirit of it all. God is in all of us. We are all souls and we are all connected."
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